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Roberta and I simply wish to extend a huge thanks to everyone who supported our little exhibiting venture at the Creative Space. Matt Mincoff and the Creative Arts Team at Northern Beaches Council for their wonderful enthusiasm and efficiency in enabling the entire project to proceed in such a smooth and trouble-free fashion. All our… see more

Roberta and I are very excited to announce we’re having an exhibition! Hide & Seek is a free exhibition, opening for just two weeks from Wednesday 11 April 2018 at the Creative Space – 105 Abbott Road, North Curl Curl Roberta is displaying a suite of works including depictions of details from daily domestic life… see more

After a great many activities occupying the first half of the year and keeping me away from the studio, I finally found time last month to conceive and complete a new work for a good friend’s recently acquired apartment. She specifically asked me for something intimate in scale and perhaps comprising multiple elements. The… see more

After 17 years in this beautiful home, Roberta and I decided we were well overdue a proper clean-out and a re-think of how best to utilise the furniture and spaces it contains. This was no small undertaking! Many months later we are (almost) finished – but the results have been very gratifying, both for us… see more

I have spent many very happy hours with a wonderful student from Avalon who’s everyday work revolves around the written word, exploring with her all manner of media and techniques as she gains a confidence in her visual creativity to equal her literary skills. On occasion, we gain inspiration through ‘tasting’ the materials and approaches… see more

Like many surfers, I tend to form an attachment to my various boards. They each hold memories for me of experiences, locations, moments in time – even individual rides on particularly joyous waves or spectacular encounters with ocean wildlife and visually stunning sunrises. Many of us (well, some at least) go so far as to… see more

I have once again been fortunate enough to work with the wonderful team at Orange Regional Gallery, now under the very capable Directorship of Bradley Hammond, and in partnership with Artist Profile magazine. The exhibition ‘Artist Profile: Australasian Painters 2007-2017’ is ostensibly in recognition of the magazine’s ten years and forty issues – but of… see more

Image: ‘Swarm’, Canson, board and hand-made Spanish paper, punch-work. 60 cm x 60 cm (framed) It’s that time of the year again, when in schools across the state thousands of brave and enthusiastic souls embark upon their final year of studies and creative endeavours in Visual Arts or Design & Technology. A vital component of… see more

As mentioned in passing in my previous post, a fortuitous meeting at the Pittwater Artists Trail exhibition (as part of the Pittwater Council initiative, Newport Easter Art Festival), has meant that I had the true honour and privilege to spend a great deal of the past several months engaged upon the creation of a large commissioned… see more

Sometimes, as has often been observed, a seemingly quiet surface belies the strong current of activity beneath. Such has certainly been the case for us here at the pencil tin. Between battening down during the recent east coast low-pressure system storm, assisting my elderly parents in the upheaval of moving home and directing much of… see more